Kanstantsin Zhukouski, Home-based activist of the “Our
Alternative” coalition, received a letter from Aliaksandr Kruty, father of a
victim of the Minsk
metro blast, kept in the pre-trial prison in Valadarski Street.

Mr. Kruty writes that he is kept in a cell “for persons who are freed from
criminal responsibility”. “The very fact of the existence of such cells in the Belarusian
prisons is an oxymoron, and is worth an attentive study. I wasn’t admitted to
my own trial. The whole time since my detention till the transfer to the
psychiatric hospital is not counted as any penalty. One can wait for transfer
to the hospital for the people who committed crimes up to 1,5 years,” wrote
Aliaksandr.

Bear in mind Aliaksandr Kruty actively participated in the trial of the Dzmitry
Kanavalau and Uladzislau Kavaliou who were accused of making the blast in the Minsk metro on 11 April. He
asked inconvenient questions to the court and insistent on the abolishment of
the death penalty in Belarus.

On 20 September on charges of hooliganism (he allegedly spilled two jars of
urine on the chief doctor of a polyclinic). Mr. Kruty was directed to a long
psychiatric expertise. In December 2011 the court ruled that he was to be
directed to a psychiatric asylum for forced psychiatric treatment.